Effect of metal powder Nickel, Iron and Aluminium on Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Epoxy Composites

Abstract

Epoxy composite hold fabricated products used in different applications such as housing, electrical equipment, automobiles and insulators due to low thermal and electrical conductivity. The effect of metal particles (Al, Ni, Fe) content on physical and mechanical properties of such fabricated samples are investigated. Different weight fraction of metal particles (3, 6, 9, 12, and 15) wt. % with 10 wt. % SiC powder is blended by simple hand lay-up technique. According to the results of experiments, we discovered the increasing in the filler content leads to increase of the hardness and modulus elasticity are increasing too. At the same time, when filler in epoxy matrix increases, electric conductivity will increase and dielectric conductivity will decrease.

Mechanical Behaviour of Polymer Matrix Composite Reinforced by Silicon Carbide Particles

“…Silicon carbide is commonly extensively used as abrasives in ceramic abrasives, reinforcement in composites, resin or diamond polishing wheels. This refers to its excellent properties like high hardness, Silicon carbide powder is dispersed in the Epoxy resin so that to increase dense and void less structure to gain a good hardness, at the same time the volume of powder and the percentage of SiC powder improve the hardness of the composite [18]. Fig.…”

“…The tensile strength of silicon carbide powder -epoxy matrix composites reduced up to (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18) wt. % of reinforcement.…”